CodeRED receives grant funding for county

The East Texas Council of Governments has announced that $87,623 in grants has been allocated to continue the CodeRED emergency notification system for a seventh year.

On Nov. 5, the ETCOG executive committee approved the funding for CodeRED which is a reverse emergency notification system, for the East Texas region as part of its public safety program.

The CodeRED system, which is funded by a Homeland Security grant, is a telephone communication service that allows Van Zandt Fire Marshal Chuck Allen or other emergency management coordinators to quickly notify citizens about emergency situations such as tornado or storm events, drinking water contaminations, utility outages, evacuation notice and routes, missing persons, fires or floods, bomb threats, hostage situations, chemical spills or gas leaks or other emergency incidents where rapid and accurate notification is essential.

A total of seven years of billing with a sum of $897,687 has been granted by ETCOG, to date, to provide east Texas with CodeRED. 

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